# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百五十五条 (Article 255) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二百五十五条 (Article 255)（電子判決書等の送達） — address `art-255` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百五十五条（電子判決書等の送達） — (Service of Electronic Judgments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255 **第一項** 電子判決書（第二百五十三条第二項の規定によりファイルに記録されたものに限る。次項、第二百八十五条、第三百五十五条第二項、第三百五十七条、第三百七十八条第一項及び第三百八十一条の七第一項において同じ。）又は前条第二項の規定により当事者及び法定代理人、主文、請求並びに理由の要旨が記録された電子調書（第百六十条第二項の規定によりファイルに記録されたものに限る。次項、第二百六十一条第五項、第二百八十五条、第三百五十七条及び第三百七十八条第一項において同じ。）は、当事者に送達しなければならない。 art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 An electronic judgment (limited to one recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of Article 253, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 285, Article 355, paragraph (2), Article 357, Article 378, paragraph (1) and Article 381-7, paragraph (1)) or an electronic record containing a record of the parties and legal representatives, the main text of the judgment, the claims, and the gist of the grounds pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (limited to a statement recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of Article 160, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 261, paragraph (5), Article 285, Article 357 and Article 378, paragraph (1)) must be served on the parties. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Article 255 (1) An electronic judgment (limited to one recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of Article 253, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 285, Article 355, paragraph (2), Article 357, Article 378, paragraph (1) and Article 381-7, paragraph (1)) or an electronic record containing a record of the parties and legal representatives, the main text of the judgment, the claims, and the gist of the grounds pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (limited to a statement recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of Article 160, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 261, paragraph (5), Article 285, Article 357 and Article 378, paragraph (1)) must be served on the parties." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb **第二項** 前項に規定する送達は、次に掲げる方法のいずれかによってする。 art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-2 Service prescribed in the preceding paragraph is effected by any of the following means: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 電子判決書又は電子調書に記録されている事項を記載した書面であって裁判所書記官が最高裁判所規則で定める方法により当該書面の内容が当該電子判決書又は当該電子調書に記録されている事項と同一であることを証明したものの送達 art-255/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-2/item-1 the service of a document that gives the information recorded in an electronic judgment or electronic record and whose content the court clerk has certified, by a means specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court, to be identical to what is recorded in the electronic judgment or electronic record; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百九条の二の規定による送達 art-255/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-2/item-2 the service under the provisions of Article 109-2. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-255/par-1: 第二百五十三条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十三条第二項 (Article 253, paragraph (2)), art-253/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-253/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-253/par-2 - art-255/par-1: 次項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第二項 (Article 255, paragraph (2)), art-255/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-2 - art-255/par-1: 第二百八十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百八十五条 (Article 285), art-285 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-285 - art-255/par-1: 第三百五十五条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十五条第二項 (Article 355, paragraph (2)), art-355/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-2 - art-255/par-1: 第三百五十七条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十七条 (Article 357), art-357 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-357 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-357 - art-255/par-1: 第三百七十八条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七十八条第一項 (Article 378, paragraph (1)), art-378/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-1 - art-255/par-1: 第三百八十一条の七第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十一条の七第一項 (Article 381-7, paragraph (1)), art-381-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-381-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-381-7/par-1 - art-255/par-1: 前条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十四条第二項 (Article 254, paragraph (2)), art-254/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-254/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-254/par-2 - art-255/par-1: 第百六十条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百六十条第二項 (Article 160, paragraph (2)), art-160/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-160/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-160/par-2 - art-255/par-1: 第二百六十一条第五項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十一条第五項 (Article 261, paragraph (5)), art-261/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-261/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-261/par-5 - art-255/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第一項 (Article 255, paragraph (1)), art-255/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 - art-255/par-2/item-2: 第百九条の二 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の二 (Article 109-2), art-109-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百二十八条第二項（受継についての裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第一項（電子判決書等の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第二項（電子判決書等の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条第二項（和解等に係る電子調書の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百七十四条第二項（判決の言渡し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 附則第十七条第一項（判決の言渡しの方式等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-17/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法), Article 255, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17